'Walking Dead' systems season large for AMC

Sunday evening saw AMC's "The Walking Dead" wrap its short fall season with considerable amounts while audiences ongoing to cling for the Kardashian clan. Also of note within the finish in the extended holiday weekend will be a sluggish start for "Hallmark Hall of Fame" on its new network home, ABC, that is one net's "Not such a long time ago" dipped since it returned undertaking a 1-week hiatus but nevertheless remains potent. Searching within the preliminary Nielsen estimations, "The Walking Dead" averaged 6.6 000 0000 audiences, including 4.5 million among the demo-friendly grownups 18-49 crowd. It absolutely was up week to week and drenched the sophomore skein's the 2nd best scores so far -- behind only its season premiere lately. While "Walking Dead" has emerged as fundamental cable's top-rated original drama series ever in grownups 18-49, the completely new drama airing behind it, "Hell on Wheels," has lost ground after its sturdy start and really should now proceed for an additional 72 hours without its customarily strong lead-in. "Hell" came 4.4 million due to its premiere on November. 6 combined with fallen to 3.5 million due to its third episode AMC did not problem ratings for your show's fourth episode on Sunday. Elsewhere, it appears the short-were living marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries didn't alienate audiences, that are still keen to follow along with together with the household's reality exploits. Sunday's second-season premiere of E!'s "Kourtney and Kim Take NY" came 3.2 million audiences, slightly a lot better than the amounts for your series launch within the month of the month of january. Inside the 18-49 demo, "NY" received 2.3 million. Beginning the summer season preem, it absolutely was tough to forecast set up divorce brouhaha brings more audiences for the "Kardashian" series or turn them in the cabler's franchise. The 3.2 million number was good sixth-season finale of "Maintaining While using Kardashians," which broadcast in September. October's two-part wedding special averaged 4.2 million audiences. Following "NY," "After Lately" came a collection-high 1.2 million for your internet. Round the broadcast side Sunday, the low-trending "Hallmark Hall of Fame" franchise opened up up progressively for ABC, as "Mitch Albom's Have a very Little Belief" settled for just about any preliminary 1.1 rating/2 participate grownups 18-49 and 6.5 million audiences overall from 9 to 11 p.m., lower an impressive 48% within the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" original presentation of "November Christmas" this past year on CBS. The Interest internet had broadcast the franchise exclusively from 1995 until taken before relinquishing it due to lowering ratings. Also for ABC, "America's Funniest Home Videos" (1.8/4 in 18-49, 7.6 000 0000 audiences overall) was up just a little versus. its latest airing, and "Not such a long time ago" (3.4/8 in 18-49, 10.7 million audiences overall), sidelined the other day with the American Music Honours, was lower but did draw its greatest audience so far among the under-18 crowd (1.5 million). The holiday weekend also saw "Tyler Perry's For Better of Worse" draw 3.4 million audiences (including 1.8 million grownups 18-49) due to its Friday premiere around the best spinner's. The sitcom, good "Why Did I Acquired Married?" movies, might be the most recent from multihyphenate Perry, whose "House of Payne" broadcast greater than 200 episodes round the cabler. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com